It makes perfect sense, only a complete idiot would hand out his sperm on the street as if he were operating a lemonade stand. His heart was obviously in the right place, but in this society you can't be this open with folks. So his reward is that he's going to have to pay for a kid he didn't expect. Unfortunately you can't un-stupid the consequences from a terrible decision like his, but he could get even. He should file visitation rights or partial custody, after all the kid's his.

If he doesn't take that step it will reduced him to nothing more than a wallet, and that kid deserves better than that. How many fathers are sent the message by the courts be a dad with your wallet when what a child needs is a dad in the home or in their lives. The "mother" knew what she was doing and how it would potentially affect this man's life, so her actions appear to be duplicitous in nature.

It makes perfect sense, only a complete idiot would hand out his sperm on the street as if he were operating a lemonade stand. His heart was obviously in the right place, but in this society you can't be this open with folks. So his reward is that he's going to have to pay for a kid he didn't expect. Unfortunately you can't un-stupid the consequences from a terrible decision like his, but he could get even. He should file visitation rights or partial custody, after all the kid's his.

If he doesn't take that step it will reduced him to nothing more than a wallet, and that kid deserves better than that. How many fathers are sent the message by the courts be a dad with your wallet when what a child needs is a dad in the home or in their lives. The "mother" knew what she was doing and how it would potentially affect this man's life, so her actions appear to be duplicitous in nature.

My conclusion: Think before you ejaculate.

Someone had to take the controversial approach. While I agree that it was quite foolish of the idiot to hand out his knuckle children to a couple of lesbians, I don't feel that he should be responsible for paying to raise the child.

Someone had to take the controversial approach. While I agree that it was quite foolish of the idiot to hand out his knuckle children to a couple of lesbians, I don't feel that he should be responsible for paying to raise the child.

Morally speaking, someone has to. So we can either trace the responsibility back to the person most closely involved (the idiot) or we can just put the mamma on the government dole and have the tax payers pick up the tab for his oversight.

Morally speaking, someone has to. So we can either trace the responsibility back to the person most closely involved (the idiot) or we can just put the mamma on the government dole and have the tax payers pick up the tab for his oversight.

I definitely see your point but it's not like the state would be going after the doctor who performed the insemination had the woman gone to one.

This is nothing new. There have been a few similar reported cases. I remember discussing this years back here on this forum.

Keep in mind, any paperwork or agreements you sign with a sperm bank, is with the SPERM BANK ONLY! So any woman can easily turn to the law (get courts and lawyers involved) and force the sperm bank to release the donor's confidential information and WHAM! Next thing you know there will be a 10 yr old kid standing at your doorstep.

There was a story years back about a women who asked her male friend to be a sperm donor for her. He really didn't want to but she begged him and he eventually said ok. Of course she guaranteed him that he would bear no responsibility for the child. She just though he had good genes and would make a great donor.

Fast forward 10 years. The women has fallen on hard times, is out of work and on wellfare. She shows up at the guys door demanding that he help support the child he had donated sperm to create. Of course the man objected him and she brought him to court over it.

To make a long story short, 2 lower courts found in favor of the man and the women appealed to the Pennsylvania Supremem court. In their decision they harshly repremanded the women for her behavior but found that the needs of the child superceed the rights of the man. Therefore he now has to pay child support.